Hordes of
Mexican men roam the neighborhoods, schools crowded with
illegal invader kids and the encroachment into formerly
"nice" neighborhoods is obvious. My
street is loaded with
Ethiopians, Pakistanis,
Nigerians,
South Americans and Mexicans.

A Retired INS Employee Says That ICE Blew It On The Radical New Jersey Imam…But Another Observer Says All Is Not Lost

The Investigative Project on Terrorism
posted its observations about Mohammad Qatanani's
trail that resulted in him being allowed to stay in the
US
despite ties to radical, anti-American groups like
HHamas.

The ITP is not a fly-by-night organization. It's headed
by
Dan Vara, the former INS District Counsel in
Miami, Florida from 1990 until 2003. Vera's other
positions included Chief Counsel, ICE, in Orlando and
instructor at ICE, INS and the FBI.

Vera found that the national security lawyers

"… went in without any insurance, without their
evidence, and without the required witnesses. Instead,
they were apparently authorized to present only
one ICE agent and one FBI agent, neither of whom had
real knowledge of Qatanani's background, as the
witnesses who could serve to prove up their case."

Summarizing the obvious at the end of his report, Vera
concludes that: "major change is required in the
federal bureaucracy."

But another analyst, while agreeing with Vera on the
fundamentals, took a more positive approach.

As posted in the comments section of Vera's article:

"Either way, decisions like
Qatanani are double edged. While they make the alleged
'bad guy' appear to be okay and a victim of government
excess and to make future prosecutions, in immigration
or criminal court, more difficult, they also do have
some positive side effects too.

They disrupt the 'bad guys'
' operations and put them on notice that we know they
are bad guys and are watching them. Thus, if they truly
are 'bad guys', we have hampered their ability to
continue their behavior. If we were prosecuting them,
particularly on terror-related grounds in either
immigration or criminal court, we have moved from the
covert to the overt anyway, so the fact that we have 'intel'
on them is no longer a secret.

What the 'bad guy' doesn't
know is just how much we do know; were we unwilling to
disclose it because we lacked anything really credible
or because it would give up sources and methods that are
still effective? The 'bad guy' doesn't know and now we
get to watch him/her/them to see what he/she/they do
next. While it's not the 'win' we were trying for, it's
not the total disaster that is usually portrayed either.
In this case the 'we' is the government as a whole, be
it law enforcement, intelligence community or both."

Lepcio worked for what he describes as the "late,
unlamented INS"
for eight years. He lives in
California.

An Iowa GOP Volunteer Says John McCain Is No Accidental Candidate

John McCain's presidential candidacy is an example of
the latter. The
front-loaded Republican
primary system is designed to keep the true grassroots
conservative base from choosing the nominee.

In the
early primary and caucus states, there are always many
solid candidates to choose from.

In
Iowa, I work hard in our Caucus
to assure that one of the lower tier candidates finishes
in at least in third place so that he can go on to
several more primaries.

This year Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney and Fred
Thompson placed
one,
two, three while McCain and Ron Paul came close
behind in fourth and fifth place.

The true
conservative votes were split four ways with McCain
being the outsider.

To
insure that a moderate Republican nominee wins,
blue states like
New York
and
New Jersey
hold winner take all races early on. And crowding the
primaries close together insures that a candidate with
views opposed to the grassroots does not have to defend
himself.

Conservatives are up in arms is because McCain is the
nominee but almost no conservative voted for him. He is
the de facto nominee.

In the end,
the press crowns the nominee—in this case McCain—while
conservative voters stay home because they now don't
matter.